[RFC PATCH 2/5] mm: Update mmu_gather range correctly

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Oct 12 04:31:18 AEDT 2016


We use __tlb_adjust_range to update range convered by mmu_gather struct.
We later use the 'start' and 'end' to do a mmu_notifier_invalidate_range
in tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly(). Update the 'end' correctly in
__tlb_adjust_range so that we call mmu_notifier_invalidate_range with the
correct range values.

W.r.t to tlbflush, this should not have any impact, because a flush with
correct start address will flush tlb mapping for the range.

Also add comment w.r.t updating the range when we free pagetable pages.
For now we don't support a range based page table cache flush.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
index c6d667187608..dba727becd5f 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
@@ -125,10 +125,11 @@ extern bool __tlb_remove_page_size(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *page,
 				   int page_size);
 
 static inline void __tlb_adjust_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
-				      unsigned long address)
+				      unsigned long address,
+				      unsigned int range_size)
 {
 	tlb->start = min(tlb->start, address);
-	tlb->end = max(tlb->end, address + PAGE_SIZE);
+	tlb->end = max(tlb->end, address + range_size);
 	/*
 	 * Track the last address with which we adjusted the range. This
 	 * will be used later to adjust again after a mmu_flush due to
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ static inline void tlb_remove_page_size(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 	if (__tlb_remove_page_size(tlb, page, page_size)) {
 		tlb_flush_mmu(tlb);
 		tlb->page_size = page_size;
-		__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, tlb->addr);
+		__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, tlb->addr, page_size);
 		__tlb_remove_page_size(tlb, page, page_size);
 	}
 }
@@ -177,7 +178,7 @@ static inline bool __tlb_remove_pte_page(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *pa
 	/* active->nr should be zero when we call this */
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(tlb->active->nr, page);
 	tlb->page_size = PAGE_SIZE;
-	__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, tlb->addr);
+	__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, tlb->addr, PAGE_SIZE);
 	return __tlb_remove_page(tlb, page);
 }
 
@@ -215,7 +216,7 @@ static inline bool __tlb_remove_pte_page(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *pa
  */
 #define tlb_remove_tlb_entry(tlb, ptep, address)		\
 	do {							\
-		__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, address);		\
+		__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, address, PAGE_SIZE);	\
 		__tlb_remove_tlb_entry(tlb, ptep, address);	\
 	} while (0)
 
@@ -227,29 +228,47 @@ static inline bool __tlb_remove_pte_page(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *pa
 #define __tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmdp, address) do {} while (0)
 #endif
 
-#define tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmdp, address)		\
-	do {							\
-		__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, address);		\
-		__tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmdp, address);	\
+#define tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmdp, address)			\
+	do {								\
+		__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, address, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);	\
+		__tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmdp, address);		\
 	} while (0)
 
+/*
+ * For things like page tables caches (ie caching addresses "inside" the
+ * page tables, like x86 does), for legacy reasons, flushing an
+ * individual page had better flush the page table caches behind it. This
+ * is definitely how x86 works, for example. And if you have an
+ * architected non-legacy page table cache (which I'm not aware of
+ * anybody actually doing), you're going to have some architecturally
+ * explicit flushing for that, likely *separate* from a regular TLB entry
+ * flush, and thus you'd need more than just some range expansion..
+ *
+ * So if we ever find an architecture
+ * that would want something that odd, I think it is up to that
+ * architecture to do its own odd thing, not cause pain for others
+ * http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzBggoXtNXQeng5d_mRoDnaMBE5Y+URs+PHR67nUpMtaw@mail.gmail.com
+ *
+ * For now w.r.t page table cache, mark the range_size as PAGE_SIZE
+ */
+
 #define pte_free_tlb(tlb, ptep, address)			\
 	do {							\
-		__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, address);		\
+		__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, address, PAGE_SIZE);	\
 		__pte_free_tlb(tlb, ptep, address);		\
 	} while (0)
 
 #ifndef __ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK
 #define pud_free_tlb(tlb, pudp, address)			\
 	do {							\
-		__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, address);		\
+		__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, address, PAGE_SIZE);	\
 		__pud_free_tlb(tlb, pudp, address);		\
 	} while (0)
 #endif
 
 #define pmd_free_tlb(tlb, pmdp, address)			\
 	do {							\
-		__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, address);		\
+		__tlb_adjust_range(tlb, address, PAGE_SIZE);	\
 		__pmd_free_tlb(tlb, pmdp, address);		\
 	} while (0)
 
-- 
2.10.1



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